Research Library

Salmonella Typhimurium reprograms macrophage metabolism via T3SS effector SopE2 to promote intracellular replication and virulence

Lingyan Jiang, Peisheng Wang, Xiaorui Song +14

Nature Communications

Salmonella Typhimurium establishes systemic infection by replicating in host macrophages. Here we show that macrophages infected with S. Typhimurium exhibit upregulated glycolysis and decreased...

Time-temperature abuse in the food cold chain: Review of issues, challenges, and recommendations

Nodali Ndraha, Hsin‐I Hsiao, Jelena Vlajić +2

Food Control

Nano spray drying for encapsulation of pharmaceuticals

Cordin Arpagaus, Andreas Collenberg, David Rütti +2

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Biological Activities and Safety of Citrus spp. Essential Oils

Noura S. Dosoky, William N. Setzer

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

<i>Citrus</i> fruits have been a commercially important crop for thousands of years. In addition, <i>Citrus</i> essential oils are valuable in the perfume, food, and beverage industries, and have...

Campylobacter virulence and survival factors

Declan Bolton

Food Microbiology

The Arrhenius Equation Revisited

Micha Peleg, Mark D. Normand, Maria G. Corradini

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

The Arrhenius equation has been widely used as a model of the temperature effect on the rate of chemical reactions and biological processes in foods. Since the model requires that the rate increase...

Nanoparticles by spray drying using innovative new technology: The Büchi Nano Spray Dryer B-90

Xiang Li, Nicolas Anton, Cordin Arpagaus +2

Journal of Controlled Release

The Impact of Heat-Moisture Treatment on Molecular Structures and Properties of Starches Isolated from Different Botanical Sources

R. Hoover

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Heat-moisture treatment is a hydrothermal treatment that changes the physicochemical properties of starches by facilitating starch chain interactions within the amorphous and crystalline domains...

Phylogenetic and genomic diversity of human bacteremic Escherichia coli strains

Françoise Jauréguy, Luce Landraud, Virginie Passet +10

BMC Genomics

Our results demonstrate that human bacteremia strains distribute over the entire span of E. coli phylogenetic diversity and that CCs represent important phylogenetic units for pathogenesis and...

Copper and Human Health: Biochemistry, Genetics, and Strategies for Modeling Dose-response Relationships

Bonnie Stern, Marc Solioz, Daniel Krewski +13

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B

Copper (Cu) and its alloys are used extensively in domestic and industrial applications. Cu is also an essential element in mammalian nutrition. Since both copper deficiency and copper excess produce...

Glycoprofiling of Bifidobacterial Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides Demonstrates Strain Specific, Preferential Consumption of Small Chain Glycans Secreted in Early Human Lactation

Riccardo G. LoCascio, Milady R. Niñonuevo, Samara L. Freeman +5

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The molecular basis by which human breast milk supports the development of a protective intestinal microbiome in infants is unknown. After lactose and lipids, human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are...

The efficacy and safety of apixaban, an oral, direct factor Xa inhibitor, as thromboprophylaxis in patients following total knee replacement

Michael R. Lassen, Bruce L. Davidson, Alexander Gallus +3

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Mood Disorders

Gordon Parker, Neville A Gibson, Heather Brotchie +3

American Journal of Psychiatry

Deficits in omega-3 fatty acids have been identified as a contributing factor to mood disorders and offer a potential rational treatment approach. This review identifies a number of hypotheses and...

Seasonal epidemics of cholera inversely correlate with the prevalence of environmental cholera phages

Shah M. Faruque, Iftekhar Bin Naser, M. Johirul Islam +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The relationship among (i) the local incidence of cholera, (ii) the prevalence in the aquatic environment of Vibrio cholerae, and (iii) bacterial viruses that attack potentially virulent O1 and O139...

The Meaning of Food in Our Lives: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Eating and Well-Being

Paul Rozin

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Dietary fibre fractions from fruit and vegetable processing waste

Agnieszka Nawirska, Monika Kwaśniewska

Food Chemistry

Disruption of TRPM6/TRPM7 complex formation by a mutation in the <i>TRPM6</i> gene causes hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia

Vladimir Chubanov, Siegfried Waldegger, Michael Mederos y Schnitzler +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Impaired magnesium reabsorption in patients with TRPM6 gene mutations stresses an important role of TRPM6 (melastatin-related TRP cation channel) in epithelial magnesium transport. While attempting...

Gastronomy: an essential ingredient in tourism production and consumption?

Greg Richards

As competition between tourism destinations increases, local culture is becoming an increasingly valuable source of new products and activities to attract and amuse tourists. Gastronomy has a...

Ceruloplasmin Regulates Iron Levels in the CNS and Prevents Free Radical Injury

Bharatkumar N. Patel, Robert Dunn, Suh Young Jeong +3

Journal of Neuroscience

Ceruloplasmin is a ferroxidase that oxidizes toxic ferrous iron to its nontoxic ferric form. We have previously reported that a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored form of ceruloplasmin is...

A high-molecular-mass cell-surface protein from Lactobacillus reuteri 1063 adheres to mucus components The GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AF120104.

Stefan Roos, Hans Jonsson

Microbiology

A gene from Lactobacillus reuteri 1063 encoding a cell-surface protein, designated Mub, that adheres to mucus components in vitro has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence of Mub...

Inferior Vena Caval Filters: Review of a 26-year Single-Center Clinical Experience

Christos A. Athanasoulis, John A. Kaufman, Elkan F. Halpern +3

Radiology

Inferior vena caval filters provide protection from life-threatening PE, with minimal morbidity.

Chemical Composition, Antimicrobial and Antioxidative Activity of Laurel, Sage, Rosemary, Oregano and Coriander Essential Oils

M. Tiziana Baratta, H. J. Damien Dorman, Stanley G. Deans +2

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Abstract The essential oils obtained from five commercial samples of Sicilian aromatic plants, laurel, sage, oregano, rosemary and coriander were analyzed by GC/MS and assayed for their...

Phenolic acid bridges between polysaccharides and lignin in wheat internodes

Kenji Iiyama, Thi Bach Tuyet Lam, Bruce Stone

Phytochemistry

Composting of agricultural and other wastes

Ken Killham

Agricultural Wastes

Inhibition of the growth of acid tolerant yeasts by acetate, lactate and propionate and their synergistic mixtures

Nancy J. Moon

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

Saccharomyces uvarum, Geotrichum candidum, Endomycopsis burtonii and Hansemula canadensis have been isolated from deteriorated silages and/or spoiled lactic acid fermented foods. All yeasts could...

Factors influencing blood pressure in salt-sensitive patients with hypertension

Toshiro Fujita, Walter L. Henry, Frederic C. Bartter +2

The American Journal of Medicine

Chemometrics: Theory and Application

ACS symposium series

Many chemical measurement processes can be viewed as systems (1) consisting of inputs, transforms, and outputs (see Figure 1). The primary input to a chemical measurement process is a sample, some...

Senescence and the Renal Vasculature in Normal Man

Norman K. Hollenberg, Douglass F. Adams, Harold S. Solomon +3

Circulation Research

The xenon washout technique and the renal blood flow response to vasoactive agents or alterations in sodium intake were used to characterize the effect of aging on the renal vasculature in 207 normal...

Development of γG, γA, γM, β1C/β1A, C′1 esterase inhibitor, ceruloplasmin, transferrin, hemopexin, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, plasminogen, α1-antitrypsin, orosomucoid, β-lipoprotein, α2-macroglobulin, and prealbumin in the human conceptus

David Gitlin, Anita Biasucci

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The synthesis of gammaG, gammaA, gammaM, beta(1C)/beta(1A), C'1 esterase inhibitor, ceruloplasmin, transferrin, hemopexin, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, orosomucoid,...

Vorschlag zur Vereinheitlichung der Fettbestimmung in Lebensmitteln

W. Stoldt

Fette Seifen Anstrichmittel

Health Benefits of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) Fermentates

Harsh Mathur, Tom Beresford, Paul D. Cotter

Nutrients

Consuming fermented foods has been reported to result in improvements in a range of health parameters. These positive effects can be exerted by a combination of the live microorganisms that the...

Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection: A Consensus Statement before Guidelines

Zhenguo Zhai, Chenghong Li, Yaolong Chen +7

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic in just a few months, causing millions infected. Nearly 20% of COVID-19 patients present severe coagulation abnormalities, which may...

Bayesian analysis of factorial designs.

Jeffrey N. Rouder, Richard D. Morey, Josine Verhagen +2

Psychological Methods

This article provides a Bayes factor approach to multiway analysis of variance (ANOVA) that allows researchers to state graded evidence for effects or invariances as determined by the data. ANOVA is...

Effect of inlet temperature on physicochemical properties of spray-dried jamun fruit juice powder

Swaminathan Santhalakshmy, Sowriappan John Don Bosco, Sneha Francis +1

Powder Technology

Packaging's Role in Minimizing Food Loss and Waste Across the Supply Chain

Karli Verghese, Helen Lewis, Simon Lockrey +1

Packaging Technology and Science

This paper presents the results of Australian research that explored the role of packaging in minimizing food waste in the supply chain. The economic, social and environmental costs of food waste...

The complex jujube genome provides insights into fruit tree biology

Mengjun Liu, Jin Zhao, Qingle Cai +27

Nature Communications

The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a member of family Rhamnaceae, is a major dry fruit and a traditional herbal medicine for more than one billion people. Here we present a high-quality sequence for...

Riboflavin (vitamin B₂) and oxidative stress: a review

Marziyeh Ashoori, Ahmad Saedisomeolia

British Journal Of Nutrition

Oxidative stress is involved in the development of many chronic diseases. One of the main factors involved in oxidative stress reduction is increased antioxidant potential. Some nutrients such as...

Draft genome sequence of the mulberry tree Morus notabilis

Ningjia He, Chi Zhang, Xiwu Qi +27

Nature Communications

Human utilization of the mulberry-silkworm interaction started at least 5,000 years ago and greatly influenced world history through the Silk Road. Complementing the silkworm genome sequence, here we...

ZIP8 Is an Iron and Zinc Transporter Whose Cell-surface Expression Is Up-regulated by Cellular Iron Loading

Chia‐Yu Wang, Supak Jenkitkasemwong, Stephanie Duarte +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

ZIP8 (SLC39A8) belongs to the ZIP family of metal-ion transporters. Among the ZIP proteins, ZIP8 is most closely related to ZIP14, which can transport iron, zinc, manganese, and cadmium. Here we...

Influence of preceding length of anticoagulant treatment and initial presentation of venous thromboembolism on risk of recurrence after stopping treatment: analysis of individual participants' data from seven trials

Florent Boutitie, L. Pinède, Sam Schulman +5

BMJ

Three months of treatment achieves a similar risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism after stopping anticoagulation to a longer course of treatment. Unprovoked proximal deep vein thrombosis and...

Enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic <i>Escherichia coli</i>: even more subversive elements

Alexander R. C. Wong, Jaclyn S. Pearson, Michael D. Bright +5

Molecular Microbiology

The human pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC) share a unique mechanism of colonization that results from the concerted action of effector proteins...

A Review on Rice Bran Protein: Its Properties and Extraction Methods

Cynthia Fabian, Yi‐Hsu Ju

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Rice bran protein has been found to be of high quality and of importance for food and pharmaceutical applications. It is a plant protein that can be derived from rice bran, an abundant and cheap...

Global impacts of human mineral malnutrition

Alexander J. Stein

Plant and Soil

Epidemics of Invasive <i>Salmonella enterica</i> Serovar Enteritidis and <i>S. enterica</i> Serovar Typhimurium Infection Associated with Multidrug Resistance among Adults and Children in Malawi

Melita A. Gordon, Stephen M. Graham, Amanda Walsh +7

Clinical Infectious Diseases

These data have important implications for the treatment of severe febrile illness in adults and children in tropical Africa. Further understanding of the molecular basis of these epidemics of...

Construction and validation of a psychometric scale to measure consumers’ fears of novel food technologies: The food technology neophobia scale

David N. Cox, Greg Evans

Food Quality and Preference

The potential influence of fruit polyphenols on colonic microflora and human gut health

Shanthi G. Parkar, D. E. Stevenson, Margot A. Skinner

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Serum Selenium Levels and All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Adults

Joachim Bleys

Archives of Internal Medicine

In a representative sample of the US population, we found a nonlinear association between serum selenium levels and all-cause and cancer mortality. Increasing serum selenium levels were associated...

Evaluation of snack foods from barley–tomato pomace blends by extrusion processing

Aylin Altan, Kathryn McCarthy, Medeni Maskan

Journal of Food Engineering